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00:10decent view of Lewis Hamilton really trying to keep that car pointing in the
00:14right direction coming through Tamburello, the Vilna chicane actually is that?
00:19No Tamburello. Oh it's Tamburello sorry and then you hits the curb the rear so unstable.
00:23The understeer was creeping in so as the driver turns the steering wheel it's not
00:27turning for them and I feel like maybe that's an area they had to work on from
00:32F1 into FP2 but maybe a little bit too much and also that change of tyre
00:36compound from soft to medium can also change the balance of the car sometimes.
00:40How much genuine learnings can you take from what we saw in FP1 as the two
00:47McLarens interchange fastest times but it's Lando Norris who goes quicker by
00:51half a second just take a look at what's happening with Fernando Alonso lots of
00:56upgrades for the Aston Martin team this weekend in their bid to find some pace and
01:02coming in to turn one and that could be a frequent sight that is Franco Colopinto in
01:08the Alpine. It's all flat the kink is flat but they have to set up their
01:15braking for the second part a little bit of banking and finally for the slow speed
01:20corner there's a little bit of camber. While you've been talking Lewis Hamilton has been pushing
01:26once more almost losing the Ferrari out of variante alta and picking up a bit of gravel and dust as
01:33he now it seems not as not as important because the whole package is stronger.
01:37It's not as pronounced these days that's for sure what's happening Lewis here a little bit of
01:42traffic the hand goes up and we're gonna see more and more of this Harry through not
01:48just the end of today and another car as well the Red Bull just meandering through and it's
01:53impossible to get by it's just it's like the M25 isn't it in rush hour if they were first and
01:59second on the timesheets we'd be absolutely raving about the job that Tsunoda's doing it the problem is
02:05you're a little bit out of the limelight as it stands at least in this session right now as George
02:09Russell does put those set of soft tyres to good use to go fastest overall. So good first sector
02:15let's see if he can hold it all together around the final corner flat out right hand kink hulks that
02:21pit wall fastest by over three and a half tenths of a second from Norris as well traffic in the final
02:27corner though look at that that definitely would have held him up a bit even though the car dust yeah
02:32the car peels off but it still goes faster but it wasn't the fastest final sector because of that
02:37traffic so tomorrow should say half the battle of qualifying will be just to get your first banker
02:42lap in as cleanly as possible. Hamilton on the radio. He's down brakes mate. He's brakes so far.
02:49As we ride on board up to the top chicane here with Antonelli goes wide he just couldn't get the braking
03:00done in time a quick look in the mirror as well it's good to see with the helmet cam you get to see
03:07what a busy race track this is but Antonelli yeah a mistake up there you have to say a little bit of
03:13over-optimism on the braking this is Max Verstappen. I popped my heart in 11-12 and here again what I
03:23mentioned okay it's it's it's an exciting place to to be because you really see the brakes the drivers
03:32at work are horrendous the precision in driving and there's an art to going through yeah we can think about
03:38the old-fashioned kind of chicanes that were put in place to just when you do the direction change
03:43because you've been maybe going a little bit of understand you don't want to understand these
03:46kind of corners you lose two or three tens super easily you also hear some drivers down shifting
03:51one gear more that's to slow the car down to put maybe a better front end to make the car turn around
03:57but the cars that are really well balanced don't need to go down that gear and it's just super smooth
04:02as I said before when you see them go well it's as if there wasn't a curb back at you
04:08thanks Jacques Villeneuve 1997 Formula 1 world champion down at Variante Alta not turn 14
04:14wouldn't dare call it that um while Jacques was talking there though you can see behind him there
04:20how how hard some of these cars are pushing so too for Lando Norris who was looking quick
04:26on that most recent lap up until it's a moment right at the end which just sent him a little bit
04:32wide he had that second chance because we are we need to work on head three or five nine eleven
04:40it's critical i think so i don't know what's going on there with him we can ride on board now but this
04:47is at the top chicane he said turn 11 was one of the corners but that's further on in the lap through
04:54here and it just like Jacques was saying the car doesn't ride the kerbs well the whole car is jumping
05:02into the air in fact when he takes too much of that second or too much of that second curve for what
05:07the car can take it can be quite a daunting thing for a young driver when you first arrive on the scene
05:11there's so many people around the car for example when you jump in can you take some of those processes
05:16there for to f2 yeah 100 i think it's it's obviously a lot uh a lot smaller team
05:27that was nearly a bit of a collision between uh the red bull i think that was sunoda and uh
05:33kimmy antonelli coming in we get uh lando norris going down the inside of a race that becomes the
05:40outside gets the traction on the exit but no franco colopinto getting a good lesson once again in
05:47racecraft as he tries to brush up on it having had a few races as reserve driver making his way through
05:55and keeping himself ahead of that mccloud let's say a month like i did on monday after not driving
06:01it for seven months and you know i was straight on the pace and uh something keeps scratching my
06:07f***ing after breaking in return to i mean i'll continue driving but we need to check it might stop
06:16have you been able to learn anything in particular watching fernando alonso at work
06:22what's this guy doing man this is your ass no one in
06:26what's this guy doing man this is your ass no one in the car and he's got a car in the wall and it's
06:31isaac hajar in the racing bulls but he's able to keep it going i think that's coming up through uh
06:39uh i think that's tamborello according to the tracker on the exit of tamborello but he's able to get it
06:45going and he tries to go now you can see the rear wheel spinning but he's beached it right on the edge and
06:51that is an immediate red flag that's tech so let's see how it began so it was coming in to tamborello
06:59here he is no it's on the exit of turn three just oversteered ran a bit wide onto the grass
07:05and actually much heavier into the barrier than i first thought from the from the steel shot we had
07:09with him and it was just look at that overheating rear tires the car goes light under you
07:16at least it seemed like a fairly square on hit let me get another look at it from
07:25overhead this you know what it's hard to know what he did wrong there i don't know how you saw that
07:30jack but it just did the grip just disappeared yeah he was using the curbs as well um and as the
07:36tires get older the more you use the curbs it's the more it becomes more difficult sure i mean i work
07:42with sports psychologists a lot of the guys do can you have a loop oh i almost said yes i could not
07:49so i had it out of my heart but put it in my seat
07:54well but at the end of friday's running and at the end of the second practice of the day it's once again
08:02a mclaren on top and it's once again oscar piastri fastest at the top of the times by 25
08:09thousands of a second lando norris's teammate having to do his quick lap on a second run in
08:16second pierre gasly third for alpine head of george russell max verstappen rounding out the top five
08:20despite the issue charlotte into the top six isaac hadja brought out the red flag having beached his
08:25racing bulls car on the exit of tamborello still managed to show good lap time into seventh spot
08:31sunoda albon and carlos signs the top 10 williams continuing to prove strong hamilton just on the
08:36periphery and 11th ahead of ollie bairman franco colapinto with his first full friday back in the
08:41game 13th ahead of fernando alonso getting the most or trying to out of the new upgrades liam lawson
08:47gabriel bortoletto lance stroll 17th ahead of kimmy antonelli didn't see much from him down there
08:52nico holkenberg 19th and esteban ocon 20th and last as friday's running comes to a close
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